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Refurbished Hubble Ready to Resume Exploration
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured people’s imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some ...
Astronauts to install new gyroscopes in Hubble
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts are about to tackle NASA's No. 1 priority in fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge
Dec 03, 2009 |
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In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...
New robot skier takes to the slopes (w/ Video)
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new robot skier has been invented that can be fitted with off-the-shelf skis. This is not the first skiing robot, since Japanese scientists have produced their own (see PhysOrg.com article here), but is bigger and heavie ...
ESA preparing 'sugar-cube' gyro sensors for future missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2009 |
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One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help of the smallest gyro ever flown by the Agency. Now being tested, the sugar cube-sized device at the heart ...
UCSD Robots Take Center Stage at National Robotics Conference
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Novel agile robots created by mechanical engineers at UC San Diego recently made their way to Austin, Texas, and took center stage during a keynote address at NI Week , the annual robotics extravaganza hosted ...
Atlantis Spacewalkers Work to Activate Truss
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2007 |
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STS-117 Mission Specialists Jim Reilly and John “Danny” Olivas kicked off the mission’s first spacewalk at 4:02 p.m. EDT. The duo is performing tasks necessary to activate the Starboard 3 and 4 (S3/S4) segment, ...
NASA broadcasts first HDTV space program
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2006 |
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The first HDTV broadcast from space took place Wednesday, featuring the International Space Station's Expedition 14 Cmdr. Michael Lopez-Alegria.
New Horizons Set For A Comfortable Cruise Out To Jupiter And Pluto Transfer
Feb 14, 2006 |
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is proceeding according to plan on its way to Pluto and the outer planets via an encounter with Jupiter next year. The following is an update from the mission's principal investigator, S. Alan ...
Voyages to the Sun
Dec 02, 2005 |
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Humanity's epic voyages to the Moon are well known, the stuff of history. But what about voyages to the Sun? Though they do not involve human spacecraft, those voyages are no less epic. And on the occasion ...
Space-time Vortex
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Nov 17, 2005 |
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Is Earth in a vortex of space-time? We'll soon know the answer: A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, ...
Hubble Space Telescope Begins 'Two-Gyro' Science Operations
Aug 31, 2005 |
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut down one of the three operational gyroscopes aboard the observatory. The two-gyro mode is expected to preserve the operating ...
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